Tuesday, December 11, 2012

I am excited about the changes and improvements that are being made to Family Tree. It is part of FamilySearch.org and it will eventually replace New.FamilySearch.org. It will be available for members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and also for nonmembers. Members should sign in with their LDS account and then they will have access to LDS Temple information.

Go to Family Tree Training to learn how to start using the program. The training resources are very comprehensive.

I would advise users of New.FamilySearch.org to make the switch now. Stop using New Family Search. Starting watching the tutorials for Family Tree. And start updating and sourcing the information on your family in Family Tree.

Monday, December 10, 2012

It was presented by Marlo Schuldt and Kathleen Bitter and featured Quick Pages that are now available for making an Heirloom Cookbook and 2012 Calendars. I learned more about the options in Heritage Collector Suite. A new feature in the latest 7.3 version is the capablility to tag your photos with GPS co-ordinates using Google Earth and addresses or place names or the Google Earth Map.

I am interested in following Kathleen's Storybook Blog. There are some great ideas for projects and free downloads for calendars.

Tuesday, November 20, 2012

The Saturday Seminars at the Riverton FamilySearch Library are always interesting and informative. On November 17, 2012 I attended the keynote speech by
Ruth Maness, AG. She has worked for the Family History Libarary for many years and is a specialist in Scandinavian research. Her topic was The Genealogy of LDS Temple Record Keeping. She outlined the history of LDS temple work for the dead starting with work done at Nauvoo in the Mississippi River and in the Nauvoo Temple and going until the present time. Her presentation answered several
questions for me. I know I will be checking a lot of temple work that has been done for my ancestors and their families. So the information that she shared will be very helpful. While I was at the Library I printed cards for temple work and I am giving them to grandchildren to get started performing the baptisms for the dead.

Saturday, March 24, 2012

Everyone in the genealogy community is getting excited about the release of the 1940 U.S. Census. Many of us are making plans to look up family members as soon as it is released. Here is a blog posting by the Genealogy Insider with essential information.

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

The first event of RootsTech 2012 was the keynote
presentation “Inventing the Future, as a Community” by Jay Verkler, outgoing
CEO of FamilySearch. Jay Verkler has led FamilySearch for ten years and
has recently been replaced by Dennis Brimhall. During the time he led FamilySearch
many innovations in technology have been implemented at FamilySearch. He has
reached out to other companies to encourage new developments and collaboration.

I first heard Jay
Verkler speak at the NGS Conference in 2010 and was further impressed with him
at RootTech 2011, the first RootsTech Conference. He has been a pioneer in
getting technology connected with genealogical research.

Jay Verkler’s keynote presentation was multi-media and he
gave credit to many others who helped him create it. It can be viewed at RootsTech.org and there was a great article about it in The
Church News. The The Ancestry Insider had a blog post giving more information about RootsTech reviews in The Church News.

Jay Verkler introduced the subject by giving background information
about the population of the world and telling how we must collaborate to
preserve family history information. He introduced Robert Gardner and David
Barney from Google who briefly told us about new metadata that has been
developed to optimize historical and genealogical searches. He introduced the
CEO of BrightSolid, Chris van der Kuyl,
and the CEO of Archives.com, Matthew Monahan. Both of these men
expressed the importance of collaboration. There was a dramatization of
collaboration between a FamilySearch researcher, a BrightSolid customer in
Sweden, a Facebook user in America. The presentation finished with a vignette
of a student in 2060 who was researching her family history. This was an
inspiring presentation and made me grateful to have access to all the wonderful
tools and possibilities for genealogical research. In conclusion Jay Verkler was presented a “To
Turn the Hearts Award” by FamilySearch. He richly deserves this award.

Monday, February 20, 2012

I had the privilege of attending RootsTech again this year.
It was a wonderful experience and I want to write about it in my blog. This
will be good for my reference even if no one else ever reads this blog. There
have been plenty of bloggers who have written about RootsTech. There were
official bloggers who reported about it and I have read some of what they
wrote. I especially like the Ancestry Insider blogs. He has written many
interesting and informative things about RootsTech.

The best resource is the RootsTech Web site itself. Videos
of many of the conferences are on this site. You can watch the actual seminars.
Saturday I watched the RootsTech seminar by Ron Tanner about Family Search’s Family Tree.
I did not see this live because it was the same time as the Devotional for
Family History Consultants where Paul Koelliker was the speaker.

Actually I heard Ron Tanner speak on the new Family Tree on
Saturday morning at the Riverton Saturday Seminar and then came home and
watched his presentation at RootsTech online. They were not the same, just the
same subject. I am really excited and happy that Family Tree is going to be
available. I was very impressed with what I saw. I think it will be easier to
use than New Family Search and that it will be more professional. People will
be more hesitant to change things. I really like the addition of source
citations. Hurrah for Family Search Family Tree!

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About Me

Jeanette lives in West Jordan, Utah. She owns Drake Family Farms Goat Dairy along with her husband Ron and sons Richard and Dan. Dan also has a goat dairy in Ontario, California. So there is a Drake Family Farms -- Utah and a Drake Family Farms -- California.

On the Utah farm there are Saanen, Nubian and Alpine dairy goats. Every goat has a name and is registered with the American Dairy Goat Association. The Drake Family has been raising dairy goats since the 1980s. They take pride in breeding quality animals. They participate in DHIA testing and ADGA linear appraisal. They use artificial insemination for some of their breeding and have collected from their best bucks and offer semen for sale. Quality dairy goat animals is the foundation of quality goat milk products.

Some of the quality products of Drake Family Farms are goat milk (Raw and Grade A pasteurized), goat milk yogurt, many kinds of goat milk cheese, handmade goat milk soap, goat milk emollient cream and goat milk lotion. They sell raw goat milk as well as all the other products at a small store located on their farm in West Jordan. Other products are available at other retail locations and online.